Oggcast

Free as in Freedom episode 0x0E

April 26, 2011

This episode is a recording of Richard Fontana's talk, Open Source
Projects and
Corporate Entanglement from the 2011
Linux Collaboration Summit, with some commentary from Bradley and
Karen on the talk.

Running time: 01:02:48.

Show Notes

Segment 0 (00:34)

Bradley is still recovering from a rhinovirus which he
didn't take care of and also made him sicker, which explains the
problems with his voice. In fact, the coughing in the background during
Fontana's talk is all Bradley. He apologizes. (00:50)

Bradley mentioned that C# descends from J++ work inside
Microsoft, which became a point of contention between Sun and
Microsoft. (06:50)

Bradley mentioned his blog
post that has the same topic as this podcast. (11:17)

Meanwhile, back at the point is a reference to LUG Radio, which
is based on the phrase Meanwhile, back at the ranch. The origins of the latter
phrase is likely unclear, although an
unsourced Wikipedia article claims it was a phrase frequently used
by narrators of black & white American cowboy movies and TV shows of the
1940s and 1950s. (12:18)

Bradley mentioned that very few companies have made an overreaching
promise to licenses all their patents in a way acceptable for Free
Software. Red Hat
is one of them, although their promise isn't perfect, it has some
value. (33:34)